Hey everybody! Let’s kick this blog post off right! We started this week on a pretty high note and let’s see if we can end it out with a shebang too. This weekend we went camping and trust me, I was not on board with this. Though I was terrified that my sweet blood would attract all of the mosquitos and that I would get hypothermia, I stuck it out till the end. Surprisingly enough I had a great time and would totally do it again. We had a nice bonfire (so I wouldn’t catch hypothermia) and we sang songs while one of the other students played guitar and it was a really nice moment to sit down and enjoy the beauty of where we are. Then we had a really cool seminar speaker this week, Katherine Muzik. She told us about all of the research she has done throughout her life time with corals in Japan, Fiji and Hawaii. It was amazing to see all of the different types of corals she’s discovered. She also shared how some of her life’s work was destroyed by the mass coral bleaching events in the ocean. I think it really makes a person realize how sensitive somethings in nature really are and we need to do contribute to making greener and better choices to help fight against climate change. Now let’s bring it back to the research. This week was a build week insert muscle man intro here. Our adventure begins with Erica, who is a high school teacher doing grant funded research pertaining to ocean acidification in the lab. We hit all the stores for supplies and started the building process for our ocean acidification simulator tanks. This is the beginning part of our set up and once we are up and running we can finally start our experiments. Since less and less megalopae are coming into the docs we have decided to start collecting juveniles in the mud flats next week, so stay tuned for that adventure. Will we lose our boots? The world may never know.
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Kaylee
7/15/2019 04:49:38 pm
That was a fun read, Hannah! Had a great time camping with you let's go again soon!
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AuthorHannah is an undergraduate student at UCLA studying Marine Biology and minoring in theater. She's just a gal who wants to be an adventurer both in the outdoors and her research. Check out her blog! Archives
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